Jon, Ndesanjo, Gerard, Hope all is well at Wikimania in Taipei. Will there be (has there been) any kind of get-together of people interested in African ...
Hoi absolutely, some interesting ideas where toyed around .. and Anthere, the chair of the board of the WMF said in her opening speech that Africa was...
Thanks Gerard. Glad to hear that there is productive discussion about Africa & Wikipedia. WRT the museum issue, a related idea is "digital repatriation" of ...
Hi all, Does anyone who was at Wikimania have anything to say re discussions on African language Wikipedias or other related topics? TIA. Don ... end of ... ...
Hoi, There were a few things that were of interest. Again the Wikimedia Foundation declared how much importance they want to give to African languages and that...
That's a weird one. It says it is a collaboration between Wikimedia Italia and another Italian organization, but the page is on the English Wikipedia, and with...
... Did the WMF make clear if they want to actually spend money on African languages, and if so, how much? Last month Renaud from Moulinwiki.org has set up a...
The Wikimedia Foundation has never, AFAIK, spent money on directly improving projects, that has been up to the local chapters. The Foundation is more concerned...
Hello to all, My project, One Laptop per Child, is developing local keyboards for a number of languages around the world. This has come up on this list ...
Hi SJ, I'll copy this to some others - the A12n-collaboration list, where keyboards for African languages has been a subject of discussion on and off since 4-5...
Hello, Tomorrow I will be meeting Ibou[1], who is doing amazing work on the Wolof Wikipedia[2]. I will try to do a video interview, which could be useful to...
FYI, this conversation has continued offlist, Replies onlist are always welcome. Hopefully we can have a summary posted later. Don ___________________ Hi SJ,...
Hi Kasper, I added some questions and took the liberty of reorganizing the list under some headings. Where will you be meeting? (Senegal?, Europe?) Great to...
Dear Kaspar, Don : I would also ask whether he has reached out (or will reach out) to the Wolof-speaking communities in France (or other parts of Europe) and...
Steve, Don, Thank you very much! ... Thank you very much! ... We're meeting somewhere close to Venice. It's not too far from where I live these days. ... Yeah,...
... It was very inspiring to meet Ibou. I wrote about it on my new and improved blog, in French: http://guaka.org/2007/08/25/de-lespoir-pour-lafrique/ I will...
Hoi, I had the privilege to welcome Ibou on OmegaWiki today.. as we really want to see African languages supported, I have added Wolof as an editable ...
Today I found out about WikiAfrica.it, an interesting Italian project. There is a workshop in Mantova this weekend. I won't be able to go there myself, but...
Hi Kasper, I am not member of the group who launched the idea and this project, but I am willing to go there and participate as an observer (and perhaps ...
Kasper, I am leaving New York September 7th. Maybe we can meet up on the 6th? Jama Jama Musse <jmgurey@...> wrote: Hi Kasper, I am not member of the...
I just found that the Kanuri Wikipedia http://kr.wikipedia.org/ has been closed. I admit not having followed this issue (actually I hadn't seen that there was...
... Are these decisions ultimately made by the language committee? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_projects_subcommittees/Languages ... Perhaps there is...
Hi, Don. The decisions to close projects are made collectively by the community on Meta-Wiki. The only thing that could have saved the Kanuri Wikipedia from...
... Hi Jon, Thanks for explaining; after I sent that mail, I took a closer look at the Langcom page and it's clearly explained there that the Langcom only...
... No the language committe does not deal with the closure of wikipedias - we only were asked once, in the case of Belarussian, for an opinion, but we do not...
Hi Jon, and thanks for the reply and clarification. Comments below. ... Maybe it's just me (I probably should have been checking) but it seems like the...
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